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St. Bernard. THE PREROGATIVE of Christ to be severed from sinners is common with him vnto none of the sons of Adam, no not to the Ʋirgin Mary, although the Papists would exempt her from being conceiued in sinne.
S^t Bernard writing to the Canons of Lions in France, touching the ce∣lebration of the Feast of the Virgin Maries con∣ception, which was then creeping in, reproueth it in these words, Quamobrem et si quibus vel paucis filiorum hominum datum est cum sanctitaete nasci, non tamen concipi: ut uni sanè servaretur sancti praerogativa conceptus, qui omnes sanctificaret: soliss{que} abs{que} peccato veniens, purgationem faceret peccatorum. Where∣fore to whom or to how few soeuer of the sonnes of men it be giuen to be borne holy, yet are they not so conceived: that the prerogatiue of an holy conception